Re: Stacking up on standard works

W dniu 2012-04-04 03:15, Brian M. Scott pisze:

> I have seen quite a few of his refutations of alleged
> extra-Basque connections; they are extremely persuasive. Of
> course, those making the connections often made it rather
> easy for him by what might politely be called their cavalier
> treatment of the data.

Besides, Trask does not reject such external connections a priori (as
Tavi put it, "Basque is an isolate, period"). For example, in "The
History of Basque" he notes some striking similarities between Basque
and Iberian and concedes that they might be distantly related or at
least have influenced each other. What he does deny is a close
sister-relationship between Basque/Aquitanian and Iberian, ruled out by
the evidence we have.

Piotr